Maple Heights Life Enrichment Director April Russell (right) and Allen Park Police Chief Eron Feltz (second from right) honor retired dispatcher Linda Isaac (third from left) during an Aug. 15 celebration.
Allen Park Police Chief Eron Feltz (right) honors retired dispatcher Linda Isaac, 75, on Aug. 15 at Maple Heights senior living community.
By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
ALLEN PARK – Retired Michigan State Police dispatcher Linda Isaac, 75, who handled 911 calls for many years, was honored Aug. 15 at Maple Heights senior living community.
Isaac, who served as a State Police dispatcher from 1993 to 2009, was a secretary with the Detroit Police Department for 18 years before moving to the MSP.
She was honored by Maple Heights Life Enrichment Director April Russell, who said Isaac has shown an amazing amount of purpose in her life and helped many people in ways that the public will never know.
Allen Park Police Chief Eron Feltz said he had worked as a dispatcher in the past, and it was the most stressful job he had ever experienced.
A clip of a past news story was played for those assembled in which Isaac helped save the life of a man who had passed out in his vehicle following a heart attack after pulling into a gas station while talking to her on his cell phone in an era before cell phones had GPS tracking signals.
Before he passed out, the man mentioned that he had been driving on a road that spanned four cities. Police cars then went up and down the roadway with sirens activated, and by listening through the open line, Isaac was able to notify them when they were close to the man’s location.
Isaac said that she was grateful that she could be useful through her career as a dispatcher, and she missed the job.
A screenshot of a past news broadcast acknowledging Dispatcher Linda Isaac’s role in helping to save a man’s life is shown Aug. 15 to Maple Heights residents and guests.